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“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
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“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”
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“Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
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